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Baal and Modeus are two demon brothers, and were once apprentices of Sparda.

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==History==

Both brothers, Baal and Modeus, were mentored and trained by the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda. Modeus gave up swordsmanship for his brother, Baal, and Sparda left his power and will in the hands of Modeus. Baal vowed to harness Sparda's power and become stronger than his master, the Legendary Dark Knight. Both brothers became demon lords under Sparda's tutelage. They trained together with Sparda until the time that he rebelled against Mundus and left for the Human World; he commanded them to wait, but he never returned.

Baal eventually learned of the existence of Sparda's son, Dante, and vowed to kill him and take the blood of Sparda. At the same time, Modeus met Dante and apparently befriended him. However, when Baal eventually fought Dante, he was defeated, and Modeus was forced to fight Dante for revenge; he too was killed. Dante made a memorial to the two brothers, marked by their blades stabbed into a stone, but Sid found the grave and used Modeus's skull as part of his ritual to release Abigail.

Baal
Baal is the darker and more disciplined of the brothers. Baal has been waiting 2,000 years to challenge and surpass his master, Sparda. According to him, Sparda entrusted his true strength and will to Modeus, not to him. Because of this, Baal envies and seems to contemptuously resent Modeus due to the latter's honorable character, something that he himself lacks. Despite this, the brothers love each other dearly.

Like his brother, Baal is a high-ranking demon lord. Under Sparda's tutelage, he and Modeus rose through Hell's hierarchy, becoming Lords of Hell.

Baal comes to Dante's town with the entent of challenging Dante, Sparda's son, and taking his soul to gain more power.

Physical Description
Baal wears a white trenchcoat with a high collar lined with gold, white shirt, pants and greaves. His white hair is spiked up, and he has green eyes. In his demonic form, his trenchcoat disappears and his body is covered in a white, chitinous hide reminiscent of Dante and Vergil's Devil Triggers from Devil May Cry 3.

Abilities
Baal displayed intense speed, durability, and strength in his initial appearance; he flung himself at Dante with blinding speed, pinning the devil hunter to a wall with intense force. He also survived a direct hit from Kalina Ann without any lasting or visible damage. According to a lesser demon that Trish interrogated, Baal's reputation and swordsmanship is such that, when he takes his sword in his hand, thousands of demons are supposedly killed in a "split second". He's skilled in dual-wileding swords using a very offense-orientated fighting using a brute force and speed-based style to overpower an opponenent although such a style leaves openings in his defenses as seen during his fight with Dante. Baal was immortal, being over 2,000 years old.

Modeus
Modeus is the calmer, gentler, and more benign of the brothers. Modeus, because of his honorable character, was entrusted by Sparda more so than his brother, Baal.

Physical Description
Modeus is clad in a black trenchcoat with a high collar also lined with gold, black shirt, pants, and greaves. His face is softer than Baal's, almost androgynous, and his eyes are gold. He has long dark hair and pointed ears, like an elf. His demonic form is very similar to his brother's, though he keeps his coat's tail, which resembles insect wings, much like Dante and Vergil's Devil Triggers.

Abilities
Modeus possessed the same abilities as his brother; immortality, superhuman physical prowess, and inhuman swordsmanship. Being a pacifist of sorts, Modeus did not engage in physical battle any longer, despite his considerable strength and skill. Modeus displayed lightning-quick speed when he attempted to strike at Dante in the latter's office, grabbing a sword and covering the short distance of devil hunter's office, all instantaneously.

Description
Due to the training they received from Sparda, both brother's are feared and hailed by demons for their skill and power, with one demon claiming that when Baal lift his swords "A thousand demons die in an instant" and Baal was able to go toe-to-toe with Dante for several minutes before he was forced to reveal his true form.

Though Modeus was never seen fighting, Baal states that he was left with 'Sparda's true will'. It is unknown what this means.

Both brother's presumably possess the standard powers of demons, including superhuman strength, speed and endurance. It appears that Baal did not have enhanced regeneration for even after he revealed his true form, his wound from Dante did not heal.

Both brothers wield swords similar in design to Rebellion, Dante's main sword, though different in color and sharing a skull on the bottom of the hilt. Baal wielded two swords while Modeus used one.

Powers & Abilities
Both Baal and Modeus were born as either mid-level or high-level demons. Under Sparda's training, they became high-level demon lords within Hell's hierarchy. Both brothers possessed considerable swordsmanship skills far beyond human limitations, though they were still inferior compared to Dante. They were both immortal; being over 2,000 years old. They possessed superhuman endurance and durability; Baal was stabbed through the abdomen but still retained enough strength to continue fighting. Their agility was above human, as was their stamina, which was at its peak in their true demon forms. Both brothers could summon their swords to their hands from the ground with telekinesis.

Background
Baal is an alternate spelling of Baal, which was said to be the name of an ancient Canaanite storm god, whom Beelzebub was said to be a bastardization of, and Modeus could be the short for Asmodeus, the demon of lust.